Gym Candy

We both have similar desires in getting better and being the est in any sport that I play. When I do something I like I always try to be my best and put 100% effort into whatever is that I want to achieve. One way that Mick Johnson and I are different is when he decided to take steroids. At that time he knew that by taking steroids he would be cheating. I don’t cheat; I’d rather practice a lot so that I could get better. Three minor characters that added feeling to the story are Peter Volz, Mike Johnson, and Drew. Peter Volz was Micks personal trainer from the gym. He had a huge impact on the feeling from the story.

Peter was the one who convinced Mick to take steroids and that it would only help him with his future in his football career. Peter told Mick it would help him for high school and also in the future, when all it would do is make him good for a short period of time and ruin his future football career and his life. Mike Johnson is Micks dad. He also gave feeling to the story. He always pushed him to being one of the best and was like his coach. His dad is the one who got him into football and helped him with everything. If it asn’t for his dad he would have maybe never taken steroids, because his dad was the one who got him into the gym. Drew was one of Micks best friends. Drew was the one who caught Mick taking steroid and performance enhancing drugs. He notice that during the middle of the game he would always go in his bag to inject himself and he noticed that he always made sure that he let no one go in his bag. If it wasn’t for Drew maybe Mick would have never shot himself. The central conflict in the book is that Mick Johnson is taking steroids and he oesn’t realize how it will ruin his future football career. Peter Volz convinced him to take steroids and tells him that many people that go to the gym take steroids, get stronger, and that it doesn’t affect your health. He knew that if he got caught taking steroids it would end his career, and would not make it anywhere past high school football. Football was mostly Mick Johnson’s life. In his sophomore year at a playoff game before the game he went to go inject him XTR to give him energy to play and